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Re:What AI coding costs you by marginalia_nu on Saturday February 28, 2026 @10:24AM (#47196384)
If programmer speed and efficiency was truly such a significant competitive factor, we wouldn't be packing them like sardines them in noisy and stuffy open floor plan offices.
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Re:What AI coding costs you by wiseowise on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:30PM (#47197934)
This. And there would be huge investments in productivity and reducing bureaucracy.
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Re:What AI coding costs you by dehrmann on Saturday February 28, 2026 @01:12PM (#47198450)
I've worked places that actively acknowledged they were paying a productivity tax for people to have unexpected encounters, and they'd recover the losses at a higher level.
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